WRITER

Bruce Chatwin

1940 - 1989

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Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Chatwin has received more than 927,905 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Bruce Chatwin is the 904th most popular writer (up from 916th in 2019), the 681st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 744th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular British Writer.

Bruce Chatwin is most famous for his book, In Patagonia. The book is a travelogue of Chatwin's travels in Patagonia, a region of South America.

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  • 2.18

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Notable Works

Utz
Fiction
Art collector Kaspar Utz takes refuge from the Gestapo horrors of World War II Prague, finding in his Meissen porcelains an exquisite reality and a counterfoil to his part-Jewish heritage
19883 / 5
The songlines
1987
On the black hill
1982
What am I doing here
1989
In Patagonia
1977
Patagonia Revisited
1985

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bruce Chatwin ranks 904 out of 7,302. Before him are Roger Zelazny, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Appius Claudius Caecus, Shoko Asahara, Sherwood Anderson, and Etty Hillesum. After him are Maurice Druon, Wole Soyinka, Stefan George, Branislav Nušić, Abraham Abulafia, and Gnaeus Naevius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Bruce Chatwin ranks 71. Before him are Astrud Gilberto, Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Jacques Rancière, Fatema Mernissi, Dennis Tito, and John Gotti. After him are Raul Julia, Brian Josephson, Roberto Cavalli, Al Jarreau, Lance Henriksen, and Gudrun Ensslin. Among people deceased in 1989, Bruce Chatwin ranks 42. Before him are Hermann Oberth, Michel Aflaq, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Danilo Kiš, William Shockley, and John Cassavetes. After him are Leon Festinger, Cornel Wilde, Jerzy Kukuczka, Irving Berlin, Antonia Brico, and John Payne.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bruce Chatwin ranks 681 out of 8,785. Before him are Ben Jonson (1572), George Porter (1920), Roy Hodgson (1947), James Francis Edward Stuart (1688), John Henry Newman (1801), and James Clark Ross (1800). After him are Oliver Heaviside (1850), William Jones (1746), Dua Lipa (1995), Jessica Tandy (1909), Peter Finch (1916), and Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Bruce Chatwin ranks 83. Before him are W. H. Auden (1907), Frederick Forsyth (1938), Wilkie Collins (1824), Aubrey Beardsley (1872), Philip Pullman (1946), and Ben Jonson (1572). After him are James May (1963), Ann Radcliffe (1764), Patrick White (1912), Percy Fawcett (1867), H. Rider Haggard (1856), and James Hadley Chase (1906).

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